[…] and Cino da Pistoia, whether Dante’s friend, or a doppelgänger of the same name, is open to conjecture.
1903, James Moffatt, “Some Recent Foreign Literature on the New Testament”, in Samuel Cox et al. (editors), The Expositor, Volume 8, Hodder and Stoughton, page 158:
But nothing is gained by attempting to prove that one is a doppelgänger of the other. The prophet [John of Patmos] and the apostle [John the Apostle] are two separate stars.
1909, in The Journal of Education, Volume 31,[1] W. Stewart & Co., page 145:
Mr. C. J. Smith said that through life he had been haunted by Doppelgänger with the same name and initials, and, as he had received no notice, he had thought till he entered the chamber that the mover of the resolution must be one of them.
1977, William Weaver (translator), Italo Calvino (author), The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Part 2, Chapter 5:
Perhaps the knowledge of being betrayed with his own Doppelgänger could console him, but no one has the nerve to tell him.
The late nineteenth-century researches of A.C. Teixera de Aragão and J.I. de Brito Rebelo have served at least to distinguish him from doppelgängers, contemporary petty noblemen with the same name.
1995, Leza Lowitz, introduction to Leza Lowitz and Miyuki Aoyama (editors and translators), Other Side River: Free Verse, Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, page 21:
Itō often writes poems in which the speaker/poet engages in a poetic dialogue or conversation with a doppelgänger—a different person bearing the same name, or a split self, or “another half.”
2000, Ben Yagoda, About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 224:
In it, the narrator, an émigré Russian writer who shares the same name and nickname of a notorious anti-Semite, is mistakenly invited to a party attended by an appalling group of apologists for Nazi Germany. Other than the intriguing doppelgänger theme, it was one of Nabokov’s slighter and more conventional efforts, […]
